Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Early Encounters: Sidney Hook, Richard J. Bernstein, and George Novack

Chapter 3 Resuscitating Georg Lukács: Form, Metaphysics, and the Idea of a New Realism

Chapter 4 “Kunst hat soviel Chance wie die Form”: Theodor W. Adorno and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture

Chapter 5 “This Morning I Read as Angels Read”: Self-Creation, Aesthetics, and the Crisis of Black Politics in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess

Chapter 7 Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postcritique

Chapter 8 From Finding to Making: Jacques Rancière, Richard Rorty, and the Antifoundationalist Story of Progress

Chapter 9 Stories of Emancipation and the Idea of Creative Praxis: Karl Marx and John Dewey

Chapter 10 Conclusion